Oil News Roundup

The Wall Street Journal Online

Updated Nov. 3, 2006 4:40 p.m. ET

Crude-oil futures rose Friday on the New York Mercantile Exchange, approaching $59 a barrel, boosted by threats of attacks on Nigerian oil output and U.S. government reports that unemployment fell to its lowest level in five years. Here's Friday's roundup of oil and energy news:

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RECORD GREENHOUSE GASES: Heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached a record high in 2005 and are still increasing, according to the World Meteorological Organization, the U.N. weather agency. Scientists say carbon dioxide and...